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ArticleMolecules (Basel, Switzerland)2021

Biocomputational Screening of Natural Compounds against Acetylcholinesterase.

Syed Sayeed Ahmad, Mohd Babu Khan, Khurshid Ahmad, Jeong-Ho Lim, Sibhghatulla Shaikh, Eun-Ju Lee, Inho Choi

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Article in Molecules (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9 citing papers in PubMed, 18 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

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7 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Syed Sayeed AhmadDepartment of Medical Biotechnology, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan 38541, Korea.
Mohd Babu KhanCentre for Bioinformatics, School of Life Sciences, Pondicherry University, Puducherry 605014, India.
Khurshid AhmadResearch Institute of Cell Culture, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan 38541, Korea.
Jeong-Ho LimDepartment of Medical Biotechnology, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan 38541, Korea.ORCID 0000-0002-0375-8170
Sibhghatulla ShaikhDepartment of Medical Biotechnology, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan 38541, Korea.
Eun-Ju LeeDepartment of Medical Biotechnology, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan 38541, Korea.ORCID 0000-0003-2496-0463
Inho ChoiDepartment of Medical Biotechnology, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan 38541, Korea.
Yeungnam University · KRPondicherry University · IN

Funding

National Research Foundation of Korea 2020R1A6A1A03044512National Research Foundation of Korea NRF-2019R1C1C1006542National Research Foundation of Korea NRF-2021R1A2C2004177
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia and is characterized by irreversible and progressive neurodegeneration. Cholinergic dysfunction has been reported in AD, and several cholinesterase inhibitors, including natural compounds and synthetic analogs, have been developed to treat the disease. However, there is currently no treatment for AD, as most drug-like compounds have failed in clinical trials. Acetylcholinesterase (AChE) is the target of most drugs used commercially to treat AD. This work focused on screening natural compounds obtained from the ZINC database (224, 205 compounds) against AChE to identify those possibly capable of enabling the management of AD. Indirubin and dehydroevodiamine were the best potential AChE inhibitors with free binding energies of -10.03 and -9.00 kcal/mol, respectively. The key residue (His

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Molecular Docking SimulationMolecular Dynamics SimulationAcetylcholinesteraseAlzheimer DiseaseBinding SitesBiological ProductsCholinesterase InhibitorsComputational BiologyDatabases, PharmaceuticalHumansMolecular StructureProtein BindingProtein ConformationStructure-Activity RelationshipAcetylcholinesteraseBiological ProductsCholinesterase InhibitorsAlzheimer diseasemolecular dynamicsneurotransmitterspharmacokineticZINC database

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PMID33946559
PMCPMC8125523
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